Nearly two s later, 'Dawson's Creek' actor reflects on historic gay kiss

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• NEARLY TWO S LATER, 'DAWSON'S CREEK' ACTOR REFLECTS ON HISTORIC GAY KISS
• DAWSON'S CREEK: INSI THE GROUNDBREAKG CISN TO HAVE JACK E OUT AS GAY
• DAWSON’S CREEK PRODUCER SHAR THE RELATABLE TE STORY BEHD THE GAY KISS THAT PTIVATED A GENERATN
• TV’S HISTORIC GAY KISS: FROM ‘DAWSON’S CREEK’ TO ‘THE FOSTERS’
• A GAY KISS HEATS UP ''DAWSON'S CREEK''

NEARLY TWO S LATER, 'DAWSON'S CREEK' ACTOR REFLECTS ON HISTORIC GAY KISS

But bis troducg viewers to an arguably excciatg ma character, the WB show also gave viewers one of the most inic moments televisn history back 2000: primetime TV’s first “passnate” gay 20 years later, Kerr Smh, who played Jack McPhee on the teen drama, reflected on the impact of that kiss an terview wh Too Fab.

DAWSON'S CREEK: INSI THE GROUNDBREAKG CISN TO HAVE JACK E OUT AS GAY

The storyle ends heartbreak — Ethan has got back together wh his ex-boyiend and don’t reciprote Jack’s feelgs — but history was ma “Dawson’s Creek, ” Will and Jack kissed on NBC’s “Will and Grace” to prott the fact that they had never seen two gay men kiss on televisn, and a few other shows, cludg “LA Law” and “Relativy” featured two women kissg. In the 1996 “Friends” episo “The One Wh the Lbian Weddg, ” for stance, the seri did not show San and Carol kissg at their own weddg a rult, McPhee said he felt a “huge” rponsibily to play Jack thentilly after Kev Williamson, the creator of “Dawson’s Creek, ” approached him wh the storyl of Jack’s g out and the Jack dated Joey (Katie Holm) earlier episos, Smh said Williamson “always had the tentn of makg one of his characters gay. ”“He was still the closet at that pot too, and every character 'Dawson's Creek' is an extensn of Kev Williamson, " Smh told Too Berlanti, the openly gay wrer, producer and director behd hs, such as “Chillg Adventur of Sabra” and “You, ” mostly wrote Jack’s character arc, acrdg to Smh.

DAWSON’S CREEK PRODUCER SHAR THE RELATABLE TE STORY BEHD THE GAY KISS THAT PTIVATED A GENERATN

“Riverdale” also clus a gay character, Kev (Casey Cott), whom Smh likened to Jack on “Dawson’s Creek. ” Kev, too, ma history as the first openly gay character Archie Comics to LGBTQ televisn reprentatn, however, there’s still room for improvement, acrdg to LGBTQ advot. In 2000, actor Kerr Smh ma history when his Dawson's Creek character, Jack McPhee, was a part of TV's first gay kiss.

TV’S HISTORIC GAY KISS: FROM ‘DAWSON’S CREEK’ TO ‘THE FOSTERS’

Lamb (Amanda Donohoe) and Abby Perks (Michelle Greene), but spe gay weddgs on Roseanne and Goln Girls, no gay male characters had been allowed to share a snog. "Although Jack was briefly paired a love tert for Joey (Katie Holm), Smh also says that Williamson "always had the tentn of makg one of his characters gay" and that the specific storyle was mostly wrten by Greg Berlanti of Riverdale. "There's always a gay storyle, a lbian storyle, or whatever.

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One of the most important storyl vered by Dawson’s Creek was the season 2 cisn to have Jack (Kerr Smh) reveal he was gay. Asi om Rickie on 1994’s My So-Called Life, there hadn’t been an out gay teen on a major work seri before. I had jt, my 20s, gone through the g-out procs and had told my parents I was gay.

A GAY KISS HEATS UP ''DAWSON'S CREEK''

Creator Kev Williamson tailed his cisn havg Jack (Kerr Smh) e out as gay durg season 2, explag, “Every sgle character has a tra of me them. “I had jt, my 20s, gone through the g-out procs and had told my parents I was gay. He was also a groundbreakg character – as Jack g to terms wh beg gay rulted the first ever US work passnate kiss May 2000.

Dawson’s Creek shownner Greg Berlanti said he wanted to feature a proment gay kiss on the seri to right the wrongs done to past queer characters other shows. The teen drama broke new ground when Jack me out as gay a 1998 episo and proceed to share a kiss wh another man.

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